Daily Discovery Bible Study

66 Meanwhile Peter was down below in the courtyard. One of the high priest's servant-girls passed by,67 and seeing Peter warming himself, looked straight at him and said, “You were with Jesus of Nazareth too!”

68 But he denied it. “I don't know what you're talking about or what you mean,” he replied. Then he went out to the forecourt, and a rooster crowed.

69 Seeing him there, the servant girl repeated to those standing around, “This man is one of them!”70 Once more Peter denied it. A little while later they said to Peter again, “You're definitely one of them because you're a Galilean too!”

71 Peter began calling down curses on himself and he swore, “I don't know this man who you're talking about.”72 Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he realized what he'd done, he burst into tears.

Mark 14: 66-72